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3.00 Credits
A practical, reading- and writing-intensive course requiring attendance at local theater productions, films, art exhibitions, classical music concerts, and dance events. Some events will take place off-campus on weekends or evenings. Transportation and tickets will be provided if necessary. Using these events and published materials as fodder for discussion and analysis, students will develop appreciation skills and refine their ability, write and converse critically, accurately, concisely and insightfully about the arts. Writing projects will include short weekly reviews and one longer research paper. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to communicate and share experiences, explore meaning, and help people connect to one another. Storytelling bridges age, race, gender, and culture. It explains myth and creates a way to express individual voice. In today's digital age, there is an opportunity to illuminate, and express our stories with sensory images. Students in this course will learn to tell their own story, create collaborative stories, and understand other viewpoints through the use of digital media. For example, students can hear and record an elderly relative's journey, digitize photos from the past, and present that story in the context of their own lives. A group of students can explore a myth or past historical event by gathering images (letters, photos, music, art) and through crafting the story. This seminar draws upon students' creativity, symbolic representation, and personal expression. The tools for crafting stories include written text, multimedia presentation, and learning to verbally tell a story. In each of these venues students will explore ways in which sights, sounds, and language can be used to create meaning. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
Why are students still being forced to read Shakespeare? Why does Shakespeare matter today? This course will examine the cultural and linguistic legacy of Shakespeare, paying particular attention to its place in the twenty-first century. Shakespeare, despite his antiquity, is contemporary in the extreme. Shakespeare today is not only a pillar of the academy; he is ubiquitous in Hollywood and has even manifested a presence in the arenas of government and corporate politics. This course will examine Shakespeare's notoriously challenging language in the same way that we will examine his attitudes toward government, politics, sex, and human relations--by first considering them in the context of his early modern world, and then filtering them through the lens of our own. Is Shakespeare a consummate conservative who believes in the absolute authority of the church and crown, or is he a political radical who wants to uproot the social order? This course will examine those questions in the context of Shakespeare's time, with its unique cultural and historical perspective, as well as considering them through the lens of our own time. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
To write about music is finally an act of translation. When one writes about music, s/he attempts to bring a thing conceived in one symbolic world into another. The task is neither simple nor straightforward. As one musician, fed up with the critics who put pen to paper in the effort to capture his music, put it: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." And for a moment, this musician's point might seem apt. The experience of music, often intense, is arguably "beyond words." Why try to tame it by putting it in the cage of language? This course considers the pitfalls and the possibilities of the symbolic translation that is at the heart of writing about music. Focusing on the writings associated with rock and roll culture (1954-2005), the class will consider the multiplicity of approaches and styles used to capture music. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
The idea of probability is ubiquitous in the modern world, appearing in everything from quantum physics to business decision theory, from DNA evidence in court to the insurance industry. Yet there is controversy about the very meaning of probability itself, and any person who encounters probability--which is everyone--should be familiar with that controversy. This seminar examines what we mean by probability ascriptions. Although there will be some computational work, especially early in the semester, the seminar is not primarily a course on the mathematics of probability. Most of our focus is philosophical, sociological, and psychological, attempting to answer questions like these: In what different ways do we use the concept of probability? To what domains of knowledge can it be rightly applied? Do all legitimate conceptions of probability obey the standard mathematical axioms? How good are people at estimating probabilities? Do all the coherent uses of probability have a common conceptual core? These and other questions will be explored through class discussions and experiments, two papers, and group presentations on a variety of topics. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
Through the image of the traveler in a wide range of films, we will examine such issues as border crossing, culture shock, and the nature of memory. Topics include: The Grand Tour, pilgrimage, exile, and imaginary journeys. A group presentation, 5 short-reaction papers, and a take-home final essay are required. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
We will study the history of women astronauts and the representation of women as aliens and astronauts in popular culture. We will see films such as Alien, Apollo 13, and Contact, and will also read two novels. Film and women's studies theory and criticism will be used to examine the texts. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
At the beginning of the Renaissance, about the year 1400, an important new theme arose in painting, sculpture and printmaking--the theme of art about art. At a time when the status of artists in society was rising, new subjects began to appear in western European art that depicted both the artist and the process of making art. Self portraits of artists, depictions of Saint Luke painting the Virgin Mary, images of women as artists and muses, classical and mythological stories of art making (Pygmalion and Galatea, Apelles painting the mistress of Alexander the Great), depictions of painting and sculpture studios and of art academies and instruction, scenes of art galleries and collections, still lifes about art, all reflected this new cultural interest in art as a topic in itself. This seminar will look at individual works of art and subject types to understand what they tell us about the role of the arts and the changing status of the artist in the Renaissance and early modern period, up to the eve of the French Revolution, about 1789. The works we study will thus be understood as symbolic indicators of social status and ideas about what art meant to European society. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore themes in both the symbolic and cultural domains. While sexuality and citizenship, in reality and in academic discourse, cuts across the areas, this course will consider methods and concepts (see syllabus for details) in the human sciences and humanities. In the humanities, students will learn fundamental ideas in the philosophy of social science. They will be taught how to recognize, in social theory(s) and theorizing, underlying arguments: ontological, epistemological, and methodological. It is not our purpose to add these ideas to our conceptual language within a discipline or to a specific topic; we will explore how they can be applied to other areas of learning and practice. They will then be applied to a current and highly controversial aspect of academic and political practice: to explore the relationship between sexuality and citizenship. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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3.00 Credits
How do you know a museum when you see one? How has our idea of a museum evolved, and where is it going? How do we go from mummies to multimedia? Museums are more popular than ever and include some of today's most exciting architectural designs. Explore the changing nature of museums as buildings, institutions, and cultural symbols. Uncover controversies in the museum community. Are museums sacred spaces or edutainment--or both? How does the architecture reflect what they are and who built them. Active discussion, critical thinking, local field trips, guests from local museums, and thoughtful writing are essential parts of this seminar. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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